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Ranking B2B Marketing Automation Vendors: How I Built My Scores (part 1)

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: The first of three posts describing my new scoring system for B2B marketing automation vendors. I’ve finally had time to work up the vendor scores based on the 150+ RFP questions I distributed back in September. This happens no matter how loudly analysts warn buyers not to make that mistake.

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Gartner Reveals Changing IT Buyer Landscape for 2013 - Are You Ready?

The ROI Guy

At the annual Gartner Symposium, the world's most important gathering of CIOs and senior IT executives in our hometown of Orlando, new and important IT spending research and trends are always presented. In spite of the predictions, there is enormous pressure on IT vendors to sustain above average revenue growth rates.

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Create a B2B GTM strategy that buyers, execs and revenue teams love

Martech

Gartner, respected market research and advisory firm, defines GTM this way: A GTM strategy is a plan that details how an organization can engage with customers to convince them to buy their product or service and to gain a competitive advantage. To gain perspective on GTM strategy development, here are a few different definitions.

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How to Create a Successful B2B Sales Experience

SalesIntel

According to a Gartner study , the typical buying group for a complex B2B solution involves 6 to 10 decision-makers. Integrating kiosk mode on sales rep devices can bolster customer engagement by providing a focused and tailored presentation environment, ensuring interactive product demos remain on-topic and highly relevant to customer needs.

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How to Optimize Your Funnel for Today’s Generation of B2B Decision Makers

FunnelEnvy

Other data shows meetings with potential suppliers now represent a relatively small portion of the B2B purchasing process: Gartner research says B2B buyers spend only 17% of the purchasing process on meetings with potential vendors. .

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IT Spending on the Rise, But Frugalnomics Still Reigns

The ROI Guy

The latest IT spending metrics have been released by Gartner, and the news is good for the second half of this year and 2011 overall. in 2011, this despite headwinds from the Japan disaster, Greece debt crisis, high oil / gas prices, and doubts over US spending / debt. We have coined the change in buyer sentiment, Frugalnomics.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Value Selling Tools and the Buying Lifecycle

The ROI Guy

These buyers need a reason to engage – and delivering personalized, proprietary and consultative benchmarks, insight and advice is essential. For most buyers it’s easier to do-nothing, than to change. But up-front purchase price isn’t everything. Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP.